Brookline's Shane Ewegen Joins Faculty at Stonehill College

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Shane Ewegen

EASTON, MA (09/25/2012)(readMedia)-- Brookline's Shane Ewegen has joined the faculty at Stonehill College this academic year as an assistant professor of philosophy. Ewegen taught at Stonehill last spring and this summer, he served as a graduate assistant to the director and conference organizer for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Italy.

From 2008 to 2011, he was a teaching fellow at Boston College. From 2010 to 2011, he was director of the Boston College Philosophy Forum. In 2011, Ewegen also served as director of the Workshop in Contemporary Philosophy. From 2008 until spring 2012, he was the assistant to the editor for the Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy.

Ewegen's research focuses on ancient philosophy, with concentrations on 20th century continental philosophy and the history of philosophy. He has a forthcoming book with Indiana University Press, on Plato's Cratylus in which he shows how Socrates criticizes a 'tragic view' of language and develops his own 'comic view' that Ewegen says frees human beings from their attachment to mere opinion by providing them with a glimpse of true Being.